Yeah, freedom of speech still applies legally here, Gref.
And hell, I hate the BNP, but I was all for the guy going on QT. All it was certain to end in (and did, as far as I've heard) was him getting torn to shreds by the public, and all it's gonna do is destroy what little image they had.
The protests against it were somewhat stupid, since they were on every news show, and all that's gonna do is show the BNP's opposition as irrational and give them some free publicity - and for a party like the BNP, it seems like all publicity is good publicity, no matter how negative it may seem.